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Meeting Thirteen: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

Meeting Thirteen: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities. Technology Leadership Research Overview. Leadership better predictor of tech use than infrastructure or spending NETS-A are comprehensive, yet conventional wisdom, weak on culture and communities

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Meeting Thirteen: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

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  1. Meeting Thirteen: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

  2. Technology Leadership Research Overview • Leadership better predictor of tech use than infrastructure or spending • NETS-A are comprehensive, yet conventional wisdom, weak on culture and communities • Schoolwide characteristic (80% w/ tech comm. | 2-3 people) • Principal involvement contributes more than infrastructure or expenditures • Technology Coordinators steer and support instructional uses • Teachers as learners critical for professional community around technology integration • Implementation • Vision can be an organizing concept • Technical & instructional support, and prof. community all matter

  3. Spillane on Distributed Leadership • the interactions between leaders, followers, and their situation • situational distribution of task-enactment • human activity is distributed in the interactive web of actors, artifacts, and the situation • leaders act in situations that are defined by other’s actions • in a situation its routines, tools, and structures define leadership practice

  4. Distributed Technology Ldrshp • “Leaders act in situations that are defined by others’ actions”, in a situation its “routines, tools, and structures define leadership practice”(Spillane, 2005) 1. Leadership Team members as called for by the situation • How the situation creates leadership practice needs • Who leadership team is (official & unofficial members), needs they meet • The follower’s degree of shared purpose, their computer uses, creates demand for various leadership practices 2. Leadership Team Interactions (and situation) • The interactions that occur as they carry out their technology leadership practice • Reciprocal shaping: tech purpose & tech leadership practice • The situation constrains and enables the interactions among leaders

  5. Technology Leadership Practices From the Ubiquitous Computing Project

  6. How technology is to support teaching & learning

  7. ClassConnect Project Director Director of Information Systems Principal 4 Tech Core Teachers Technical and instructional concerns tightly coordinated Pilot programs and consistent teacher involvement Parent and student input Constant focus on purpose Lewis Middle School

  8. Lewis’ Teachers’ Views • Who is a Tech Leader? • Role/ What • Coordinated? • 12/21 Yes, through hours and hard work of tech core; information is regularly disseminated and shared. 7/21 No, they didn’t know how they were supposed to be using technology in their classroom. • Opportunity for Input? • 12/18 Yes, through through team leaders, tech core member, staff meetings, and informally

  9. Lewis’ Teachers’ Views • Technology Support • Technical 35% seldom needed | 60% mostly available | 80% good+ • Instructional: 80%+ seldom needed | 25% mostly available | 50% good+ • Impact

  10. Lewis’ Teachers’ Views • Professional Community about Tech • Tech Vision and Other Shared Goals • Prof Comm, Discussion, Staff Dev

  11. Superintendent Technology Director 2 Technical Coordinators at school Directive, from superintendent Focused on access, and technical concerns Little to no involvement from others, including principal Fulton Middle School

  12. Fulton’s Teachers’ Views • Who is a Tech Leader? • Role/ What • Coordinated? • 11/17 Yes, with caveat of time. 4/17 No, too little time. • Opportunity for Input? • 5/13 Yes, through forms for service, accessible inbetween classes, at meetings, or through email. 4/13 said they were not asked. 4 said it wasn’t possible

  13. Fulton’s Teachers’ Views • Technology Support • Technical 60% seldom needed | ~50% not available | 50+% good • Instructional: 70% seldom needed | 25% mostly available | 50% good+ • Impact

  14. Fulton’s Teachers’ Views • Professional Community about Tech • Tech Vision and Other Shared Goals • Prof Comm, Discussion, Staff Dev

  15. Technology Leadership as a School Characteristic • Shared by a team • Its results are school resources • Teacher professional community • Technology support quality • Distributed Leadership Model • Recognizes recursive effect • leaders act in situations that are defined by other’s actions • in a situation influences leaders’ and followers’ practices • Leaders’ Technology Vision • Expressed in routines, tools and structures • Embodied most often in Technology Coordinator • Expertise and Position/Power issues

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